Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.